From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA10800; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:26:30 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11298 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:26:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.89]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fAFLQNj17564 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:26:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp-relay01.mac.com (server-source-si02 [10.13.10.6]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id fAFL6psD024510 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com ([10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 relay01 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GMV27X00.P4X for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:26:21 -0800 Received: from kallisti.apple.com ([17.206.25.144]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 asmtp02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GMV27X00.A2W for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:26:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:26:19 -0800 Reply-To: jhw@wetware.com Subject: Re: [Caml-list] parsing and emitting Unix.inet_addr values Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v472) From: james woodyatt To: The Trade Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <000601c16e14$60bffa40$ca01a8c0@homebox> Message-Id: <692234CA-DA0F-11D5-832E-000502DB38F5@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.472) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 12:30 , Francois Rouaix wrote: > > I guess that this proved that you can get any OCaml application IPv6 > enabled if you do the appropriate work in libunix. Maybe Francis still > has a copy of that code BTW. I had a conversation a couple days ago with a co-worker who is active in several IETF activities, and we were commiserating about the sorry state of industry efforts to transition away from IPv4 to IPv6. I've almost convinced myself that it will never happen. He's not nearly so pessimistic as me. We agreed that one of things holding back development of IPv6 applications are the crufty interfaces that C language programmers have as a result of extending the BSD sockets API in the way they did. I'm very encouraged to see the Caml team taking appropriate steps to avoid that pitfall. Very encouraged. I had been planning to leave open support for AAAA or A6 resource records (whichever emerges as the standard) in my stub resolver, and now I have a better reason for doing the extra work. -- j h woodyatt "...the antidote to misinformation is more information, not less." --vinton cerf ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr